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groups. The members of both groups always forgot to put a period at the end of every sentence. For plural phrases or plural sentence which was combined with
conjunction such as ‘and’, the students did not put a comma. The students just wrote without considering the punctuation.
Some of the students also forgot to use capital letter to begin a new sentence. They just wrote what they had to write directly. Sometimes, the students
wrote the sentences by listing their answers, but actually the case was that the students had to answer the guidance questions in a form of short paragraph as
what the researcher asked them. However, the students were getting better. They started to use correct
punctuations in writing. The students used a period to end the sentences. The students also used capital letter at the beginning of the sentence.
4.2.5 The students’ perception towards the use of diary in learning writing
After conducting the research i.e. using diary in the teaching and learning writing, the researcher wanted to find out about the students’ impression of it. The
researcher wanted to find out what was the students’ perception of using diary in the teaching-learning, especially for developing students’ writing ability. In
gathering the students’ answer to this question, the researcher did an interview to all students in class IV. The researcher did not interview the students one by one
because of the limited time. From the interview done to the students in the experimental group, the
researcher gained positive answer. The data showed that the students were happy because they acquired different media and technique in learning English. It was
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because the lessons were done continuously, started from 17 July – 6 August 2007. It made the students did not forget the lesson given the day before.
The students also told that they could learn writing more effective than before. Besides, the students could learn English integratedly; they could learn all
of the English skills in one technique. The students hoped that this kind of technique would be implemented in the next learning.
The researcher could not deny that there was also negative answer from the students even though it was a little. The students stated that they sometimes
did not know how to answer the questions given to them. It was because they did not know the translation of the questions. They did not know the meaning of the
questions. Even though the researcher had given the meaning of the questions in the class, however the students did not write or memorize it; so that they forgot it
whenever they had to answer it at home. Fortunately some of the students knew what they had to do to handle this problem. They told that they ask their parents
or their relatives the meaning of each question so that they could continue writing the diary.
However, for those who did not know to whom they could ask the meaning of the each question, they just answer the question based on what came
in their mind. They tried to remember what their teacher the researcher had taught to them. Finally they just write what they had to write without considering
whether their answer was right or wrong.
